Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is often caused by a deficiency in certain vitamins.
Vitamin B-6, especially, has been used to reduce the pain symptoms of carpal tunnel. Researchers have found that a B-6 deficiency will cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
How much should you take to reduce your carpal tunnel pain?
Go to a health food store or shop online for a good, high-potency multi-vitamin or B-vitamin blend. Read the label to make sure there is a wide variety of vitamins and minerals.
Read and follow the directions on the bottle. Drugstore or supermarket brands are usually not as potent (powerful) as those from health food stores or mail order. Often, the drugstore brands only have a handful of ingredients and a minimum amount of nutrients.
I’d love to see you take a supplement with a ton of good-quality nutrients.
You might find a blend of a few vitamins which is supposed to be specifically for carpal tunnel syndrome. It may help but you won’t be getting all the other good things that are in a good multi-vitamin and mineral.
What about cost?
The supplements I take cost about $50-$55 a month, maybe more but I take several.
I figure this is a cost of “health insurance” for me. I have to pay out of pocket but I am healthy and rarely ever sick. In fact, I get sick much less than in the “good old days.”
I got serious about supplementing with vitamins and minerals many years ago. After six or eight months, I realized that I had seven (!) fewer health and comfort issues bothering me.
What is your health worth to you?
Which to choose?
I’m not selling supplements, so it’s safe to keep reading. 🙂
I order
mine by mail. They come in easy-to-use packets and I feel good about the doctor who put together this formula. His advice improved my cholesterol levels. (Update 2022: I’ve changed brands one or twice.)
I have tried other formulations from other MD’s. While they are fine products, loaded with nutrients, each had something that just didn’t work for me. One had green tea, and I don’t use anything with caffeine. One had an after-taste.
You will have to try and see which you prefer.
Vitamin B-6 is just one of the many vitamins that most of us are deficient in. There are many reasons for this, and supplementing will help correct it. (So will avoiding Yellow #5, a food coloring that’s found in lots of white and yellow food products. It destroys B-6. It goes by several aliases.)
What About Fish Oil?
It seems that every article I read about fish oil (or flax seed oil) says researchers have found another benefit to taking fish oil.
One of those benefits is that fish oil reduces inflammation. The tissues around your carpal tunnel are inflamed if you are having pain. Taking fish oil supplements may reduce your carpal tunnel symptoms.
Fish oil comes in capsules so you don’t have to taste it. (2022 Update: I’ve been taking Dr. Sinatra’s calamarine capsules for several years and it has B vitamins and Co-Q10 and more in them.)
How long will it take until you begin to notice improvement in you carpal tunnel syndrome?
It may take months. I noticed my big health changes after more than half a year had passed.
It took months and years for you to get to this point and it will take time for you to restore your body’s vitamin needs.
And, remember to drink lots of pure water, too.
I have worked with lots of people who have carpal tunnel syndrome over the years. I could often tell by the texture or tone of their muscles and tissues that they weren’t drinking enough water.
Water helps flush the metabolic wastes out of your muscles. Every cell in your body craves water!
When these waste products can travel easily out of your body, your soft tissues will be healthier and happier and you will have less pain in your carpal tunnel area and elsewhere.
And, that’s a good thing. I’ve got more help for you at Carpal Tunnel Tool Kit. Please click the link if you’d like to learn more. It’s a simple program I created just for you!
“Because You Deserve To Feel Better!”